Chris Staros

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Chris Staros is the publisher of Top Shelf Productions, one of the critically-acclaimed independent press publishers of graphic novels and comics. He is also the President of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), the non-profit organization founded in 1986 whose charter is to protect the First Amendment rights of the comics community.

Since 1997, Top Shelf has published over 150 graphic novels and comics that have helped to revitalize interest in comics as a literary art form. Highlights include Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls, Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell's From Hell, Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele's The Surrogates, Andy Runton's Owly, and Craig Thompson’s Blankets, all of which have garnered critical accolades from the likes of Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker, USA Today, and the New York Times Book Review (www.topshelfcomix.com).